TY  - BOOK
AU  - Del Real,Patricio
AU  - Gyger,Helen
TI  - Latin American modern architectures: ambiguous territories 
SN  - 9780415893459 (hardback)
AV  - NA702.5 .L39 2013
U1  - 720.980904 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - NewYork, london
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Latin America
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - ARCHITECTURE / History / Contemporary (1945-)
KW  - ARCHITECTURE / Individual Architects & Firms / Essays
N1  - Includes index; Foreword Kenneth Frampton Acknowledgments. Introduction. Part 1: Singular Journeys 1. Lucio Costa's Luso-Brazilian Routes: Recalibrating "Center" and "Periphery" Gaia Piccarolo 2. "Corbusians" in Uruguay: A Contradictory Report Jorge Nudelman Blejwas 3. Mass Culture at Mid-Century: Architecture under a "New Humanism" Noemi Adagio Part 2: Techno-Cultural Assemblages 4. Pre-Columbian Skins, Developmentalist Souls: The Architect as Politician Luis Castaneda 5. Caracas's Cultural (Be)longings: Re-tracing the Troubled Trajectories of the Superbloque Experiment Viviana d'Auria 6. Monumentality and Resignification: The UNCTAD III Building in Chile Daniel Talesnik 7. A Panel's Tale: The Soviet I-464 System and the Politics of Assemblage Pedro Ignacio Alonso and Hugo Palmarola Sagredo 8. Argentina's cuestion capital: Founding a Modern Nation, 1850-1888 Claudia Shmidt 9. Modern Frontiers: Beyond Brasilia, the Amazon Paulo Tavares Part 3: Mediated Territories 10. Reflections of the "Colonial": Between Mexico and Californiano Cristina Lopez Uribe 11. Aviation, Electrification, and the Nation: Visions from Colombia and Chile Hugo Mondragon Lopez 12. Mario Pani's Hospitality: Latin America in Arquitectura/Mexico George F. Flaherty 13. Technics and Civilization: Felix Candela's Geopolitical Imaginary Maria Gonzalez Pendas Contributors. Image Credits. Index
N2  - Latin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous Territories has thirteen new essays from a range of distinguished architectural historians to help you understand the region's rich and varied architecture. It will also introduce you to major projects that have not been written about in English. A foreword by historian Kenneth Frampton sets the stage for essays on well-known architects, such as Lucio Costa and Félix Candela, which will show you unfamiliar aspects of their work, and for essays on the work of little-known figures, such as Uruguayan architect Carlos Gómez Gavazzo and Peruvian architect and politician Fernando Belaúnde Terry. Covering urban and territorial histories from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, along with detailed building analyses, this book is your best source for historical and critical essays on a sampling of Latin America's diverse architecture, providing much-needed information on key case studies. Contributors include Noemí Adagio, Pedro Ignacio Alonso, Luis Castañeda, Viviana d'Auria, George F. Flaherty, María González Pendás, Cristina López Uribe, Hugo Mondragón López, Jorge Nudelman Blejwas, Hugo Palmarola Sagredo, Gaia Piccarolo, Claudia Shmidt, Daniel Talesnik, and Paulo Tavares
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